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Summary: Educational and Entertaining!
Review: "Marching through Culpeper" by Virginia Morton was an amazing story. The perfect blend of both fiction and nonfictional characters, tantalizing romance, believable dialogue, and a plot that will both, educate, and entertain the reader for literally hours on end!This book has already received some amazing reviews and I don't think I could top anyone of them so I will just say buy the book and see for yourself what has everyone raving about! I have little doubt you too will enjoy this story as much as I have! John Savoy
C.E.O. & Financial Advisor
Savoy International
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Summary: 'Marching Through Culpeper' ''.Read by (a) Culpeper.
Review: 3,000 miles and about 9 generations separate me from my colonial Virginian ancestors. But from the first page of 'Marching Through Culpeper', I was catapulted back to Virginia's beautiful Piedmont region of the mid-19th century. Author Virginia Morton has written a fantastic piece of historical fiction that should rank with Stephen Crane's 'Red Badge of Courage', William Safire's 'Freedom', and Victor Hugo's 'Les Misérables'. Action, romance, historical facts, and plausible speculations are all smoothly intertwined in this Civil War narrative rewarding both students of the conflict and readers of entertaining fiction.
...: 'The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous fact that once, on this earth, on this familiar spot of ground walked other men and women as actual as we are today, thinking their own thoughts, swayed by their own passions but now all gone, vanishing after another, gone as utterly as we ourselves shall be gone like ghosts at cockcrow' ' G.M. Trevelyan (English historian). 'The honest historian can learn something from the honest novelist ' one communicates the truth through facts while the other communicates the truth through sensations' ' paraphrased from Shelby Foote (Civil War author/historian). In Marching Through Culpeper, Virginia Morton has deftly combined the 'honest historian' with the 'honest novelist'. She brought back American legends like Stuart and Pelham and made their personalities as familiar and inviting to us as to be our (long-lost) friends. More importantly, Ms. Morton created empathic fictional characters, like Constance, Sadie, and Aaron, to represent what history books must necessarily neglect: the unsung civilian and common soldier living (surviving) in events beyond their control.
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Summary: History Comes Alive!
Review: A Northerner by birth, a Virginian by choice, and a student of Civil War military history by interest, I found Marching Through Culpeper to be a great book--an historically accurate, well-told tale with believable characters that was hard to put down. I recommend it highly!
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Summary: Trashy Romance Novel
Review: All this talk about wonderfully researched, tear-jerking, etc. What about the slander, nudity, and vulgar scenes that involve the REAL characters?? I was appalled when I read this book. These officers are some of the most beloved men of the Confederacy, but this book is putting them in such hideous situations and there isn't even any truth behind it. This book was obviously NOT well-researched. If you're gonna write a romance novel, at least change the names of ALL the characters. Pure slander!! That's all I can say about this book.
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Summary: Trashy Romance Novel
Review: All this talk about wonderfully researched, tear-jerking, etc. What about the slander, nudity, and vulgar scenes that involve the REAL characters?? I was appalled when I read this book. These officers are some of the most beloved men of the Confederacy, but this book is putting them in such hideous situations and there isn't even any truth behind it. This book was obviously NOT well-researched. If you're gonna write a romance novel, at least change the names of ALL the characters. Pure slander!! That's all I can say about this book.
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Summary: Marching Through Culpeper
Review: An excellent interesting book from the War Between the States era. Romance, intrigue, the war and politics remind me of Gone With the Wind. Extremely well researched, you can put yourself there, living what was a most tumultous time in our nation's history. The old South is properly portrayed in hope and sorrow as independence for the Confederacy fades into oblivion. I would love to see this book made into a movie! Jack E. Marlar
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Summary: Marching Through Culpeper
Review: An excellent interesting book from the War Between the States era. Romance, intrigue, the war and politics remind me of Gone With the Wind. Extremely well researched, you can put yourself there, living what was a most tumultous time in our nation's history. The old South is properly portrayed in hope and sorrow as independence for the Confederacy fades into oblivion. I would love to see this book made into a movie! Jack E. Marlar
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Summary: Stitled, dry South
Review: As a lover of historical fiction, I found MtP one of the reading disappointments of a long reading career. The language is so stilted , it's funny :"I am in awe of you." ?? The idea may be good, the historical research thorough, but dry....dry....I am stopping my laborious reading at the point that the incredible young heroine meets the 6'2" hero.....ENOUGH!!!!!
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Summary: Buy This Book!
Review: As a voracious reader, collector, and enthusiast of The Late, Great Unpleasantness, have devoured hundreds upon hundreds of well written books. This is undoubtedly the best researched and most entertaining of all. If you plan to buy only one book this yer, let it be "Marching Through Culpeper."
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Summary: Buy This Book!
Review: As a voracious reader, collector, and enthusiast of The Late, Great Unpleasantness, have devoured hundreds upon hundreds of well written books. This is undoubtedly the best researched and most entertaining of all. If you plan to buy only one book this yer, let it be "Marching Through Culpeper."
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